1. Promoting Open Digital Scholarship - A Canadian Library Perspective Leila Fernandez Rajiv Nariani Marcia Salmon York University Libraries, Canada

2. What do we mean by Open Access? Scholarly content online that is free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. (paraphrased from Peter Suber) Primarily aimed at research articles which authors give to publishers without being paid Open Access journals are peer-reviewed journals that provide users with the right to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles“.

3. Public Access Policies to Health Research in Canada Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): One of eight research funders in Canada listed in ROARMAP mandating public access to research outputs CIHR provides funding opportunities for research in Biomedical, Clinical, Health System Services, Social, cultural, environmental and population health

4. CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs FAQs

5. Promoting OA Initiatives on York Campus CIHR public access policy: An opportunity to promote OA to Faculty & Graduate students - Scholarly communication initiatives website -Workshops organized by campus research officers - York University Library newsletter for faculty -Yfile: York Community Newsletter -Senate Committee on Library and Information Technology -Talking to subject librarians, exploring liaison opportunities -Reaching out to faculty at grant application workshops -Promotion at event celebrating York authors

7. Workshops for CIHR researchers Organized by Research Officers of Faculty of Health and Faculty of Science and Engineering Coverage of resources eligible for OA policy compliance using the gold route and the green route Promote Library support of OA initiatives

8. CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs – Gold Route Option #1: Make the full-text of your publication freely accessible from the publishers website (Gold route) Option #2: Grant recipients must archive the final peer-reviewed full-text manuscript within 6 months of publication in a digital archive such as the YorkSpace institutional repository OR PubMed Central Canada (Green Route)YorkSpace PubMed Central Canada Policy applies to all grants awarded by CIHR starting January 1, 2008

9. Gold Route: Open Access Journals – Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ (maintained by Lund University Libraries) DOAJ – Delayed OA journals (free after specified periods) Journals from PubMed Central Journal ListPubMed Central Journal List Journals from HighWire PressHighWire Press

10. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

11. PubMed Central Journal List

13. Other option to make article OA Publish in Hybrid Open Access Journal. Also called OA by the Article, Optional OA, Paid Option for OA, or Author Choice, etc This refers to a journal where only some of the articles are Open Access. This status typically requires the payment of a publication fee / Article Processing Charge (APC) to the publisher APC eligible as a CIHR grant expense

14. York University Libraries Initiative for covering Article Processing Charges Author fees subsidy for publishing in certain journals covered by York University Libraries At present three publishers supported: – BioMed Central BioMed Central – Public Library of Science Public Library of Science – Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation

15. BioMed Central – Full Fees Covered

16. PLoS – York Authors – 10% Fees Covered

17. Hindawi: Pilot for One Year

18. Option#2 Author Self-archiving Grant recipients must archive the final peer- reviewed full-text manuscript within 6 months of publication in a digital archive such as the YorkSpace institutional repository OR PubMed Central Canada (Green Route) YorkSpace

19. CARL Institutional Repositories

20. PubMed Central Canada

21. York University Libraries Support for deposit in Institutional Repository Authors deposit their final peer-reviewed manuscripts in YorkSpace to comply with funder requirements Digital Initiatives Librarian trains graduate students and faculty in uploading documents to the repository Workshops by subject librarians to explain library initiatives and publisher deposit requirements to health researchers

22. Search for Journals/Publishers compliant with CIHR Policy

23. SHERPA ROMEO How to Interpret the Results of a SHERPA RoMEO Search?

24. YorkSpace is the institutional repository for York University YorkSpace facilitates the online organization, preservation, and dissemination of York research YorkSpace is compliant with global standards for interoperability (OAI-PMH) so that the contents are searchable by search engines such as OAIster and Google

27. Metadata template includes Funding Agency requirements

28. Future Steps Analyze response to workshops Monitor uptake of APC subsidies by York researchers Promote library initiatives for OA Develop closer relationships with Research Officers & key stakeholders on campus Keep up-to-date with funder initiatives